Re-thinking What it Means We Evolved: A New Framework for Universal Moral Values - Softcover

Johnston, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977947084 ISBN 13: 9780977947089

Publisher: Evolved Self Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Scientists are puzzled. “Why won’t the public embrace our scientific theory of evolution?” This book is my answer, written in terms of my own experience and my own way of looking at the world. But it may speak for you too. It may tell those scientists why the rest of us think we’re better off without their theory. Evolution matters. It’s much too important to leave to scientists. It matters because evolution has become our new origin story. Aren’t we bound to look to our origin story to find out who and what we are? But when we do that with today’s scientific theory—“the modern synthesis”—the answers we get aren’t satisfying. So I've come up with a theory of evolution of my own that gives me answers I’m happier with, answers to do with meaning and values.When it’s meaning and values you’re after you have to look beyond science. In this book you’ll find me supplementing what we know about the human genome with the history of the Ancient World. Chapters of rational argument alternate with stories, flights of imagination through which I explore what evolution must mean. The result is a new natural philosophy—the world isn’t the way we thought it was—and a new framework for moral values, values inherent in the process of evolution itself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Evolved Self Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977947084
• ISBN 13: 9780977947089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177